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THE DIFFICULTY OF BEING, by Jean Cocteau. Autobiographical jottings of the Frenchman who enjoyed playing the flamboyant artist but who preserved for books and movies his creative fires.
THE HORRORS OF LOVE, by Jean Dutourd. Using an ill-fated May-to-December romance, Satirist Dutourd skillfully and venomously explores the French character.
ALL MEN ARE LONELY NOW, by Francis Clifford. The author is the latest practitioner of the le Carre school of thriller writing, and he offers a properly murky plot and even cloudier characters.
RICHARD STRAUSS: THE LIFE OF A NONHERO, by George R. Marek. The great romantic composer is viewed amidst a vivid evocation of cultural life in Germany—whose decay and upheaval after World War I, argues the author, was the cause of Strauss's disappointing later output.
SNOW WHITE, by Donald Barthelme. Snow White and her seven dwarfish accomplices suffer through the complexities of contemporary life in a witty and wild retelling of the old fairy story.
BATTLES IN THE MONSOON, by S.L.A. Marshall. A rapid-fire account of a summer's campaigning in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam, this book by Brigadier General "Slam" Marshall brings the red visage of war into close-up focus.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week)
2. Washington, D.C., Vidal (3)
3. The Eighth Day, Wilder (2)
4. The Plot, Wallace
5. Tales of Manhattan, Auchincloss (5)
6. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (8)
7. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (4)
8. Capable of Honor, Drury (7)
9. The Chosen, Potok (9) 10. Fathers, Gold (10)
NONFICTION 1.
The Death of a President, Manchester (1)
2. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (2)
3. Everything But Money, Levenson (3)
4. Madame Sarah, Skinner (4)
5. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Steam (5)
6. Games People Play, Berne (6)
7. Treblinka, Steiner (10)
8. By-Line: Ernest Hemingway, White, ed.
9. Paper Lion, Plimpton (8) 10. Disraeli, Blake (7)
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